If you missed it in theaters late last year (or if you just want to build up your home library) out on DVD is the
Pedro Almodóvar Classics Collection. Released by
Sony Pictures Classics, the eight films include
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988),
All About My Mother (1999),
Talk to Her (2002),
Flower of My Secret (1995),
Live Flesh (1996),
Law of Desire (1987),
Matador (1986) and
Bad Education (2004). It is a must have for the Almodóvar fan.
GreenCine has
this story up by
Michael Guillén on the films. Here’s an excerpt:
Not only does Almodóvar question what it means to be Spanish in the period following Generalissimo Franco's repressive regime; he questions what it means to be a "man," a "woman," a "straight," a "queer," a "mother," a "father," a "victim," an "oppressor," all those identities which in their dazzlingly expressive fluidity lean toward or away from each other in various combinations throughout his work.
# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 2/02/2007 10:56:00 AM
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